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“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”

Oliver Sacks

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“Change is freedom, change is life.

It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes, don't risk disapproval, don't upset your syndics. It's always easiest to let yourself be governed.

There's a point, around age twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfil my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to go unbuild walls.”

Ursula Le Guin

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"You are something not that comes into the world, but comes out of it—in the same way as a flower comes out of a plant, or a fruit comes out of a tree. You are an expression."

Alan Watts

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Transcend…

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Am I not?

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“Character; the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life; is the source from which self-respect springs.”

Joan Didion

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“Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.”

Anne Lamott

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“To love a place is not enough. We must find ways to heal it.”

Robin Wall Kimmerer

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Each persons life represents a world, a unique way in which the universe perceives itself.

Elkhart Tolle

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Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

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Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us.

Pema Chodron

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You are the sky. Everything else, it’s just the weather.

Pema Chodron

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There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen.

Rumi